working outlineTopic: Psychopaths and the legitimacy of their portrayal in film and media. Specific purpose: To inform the audience of the inaccuracy of the portrayals of certain mental illnesses. Thesis: Today's socializing agent is the media, distortion of accuracy in its portrayal leads to misconceptions and misunderstandings which hinders the cultural growth and knowledge of society. 1. Introduction:

a. There are at least two million psychopaths in North America at any given moment. b. This is a problem that every single person comes into contact with at least once. c. Although many psychopaths are criminals, many more use charm and manipulation to take advantage of the people around them.

d. They manipulate people through body language, fast-talking, wit and charm. In books and movies we find psychopathy to be quite a common theme, however these representations are often exaggerated or completely inaccurate. e. Cultures and societies pass on to their members knowledge of the world. Transition : Today's socializing agent is the media, distortion of accuracy in its portrayal leads to misconceptions and misunderstandings which hinders the cultural growth and knowledge of society. 1. Body:

a. There are certain prominent characteristics observed in those mentally productive individuals.b. In the case of a psychopath, activity (daily routine) is borne fully by the force of their personality and as their moods rise and fall, so does their productivity. c. These are called “biological fluctuations”.

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d. Many of these defy detection in the life of the average person because their mechanical routine work discloses little of their actual personality
2. Body:a. Psychopath literally means mental illness which causes the confusion that psychopaths are disoriented or out of touch with reality as seen in other mental illnesses. b. What differentiates psychopaths from the mentally ill is that every action is one of choice.

c. Although strongly led by impulse, psychopaths are fully aware of their actions. d. Having found psychopaths not to be ill, what are they?e. Hervey Cleckley, author of The Mask of Sanity, and creator of “Cleckley’s Checklist”, a method used for diagnosing psychopathy, states: “A psychopathic personality shows not a disorder of personality but rather a defect of personality, together with a set of defenses evolved around that defect”. (Cleckley 261)

f. These defects are said to create a new personality altogether, currently know as Antisocial Personality Disorder; It differs from an abnormal personality when one knowingly causes other people to suffer because of his or her personality. g. A personality in itself is known as a particular constellation of basic traits in a variety of structural models.

3. Body:
a. Origins of psychopathy are still unknown, but many theories are speculated. Lara 3b. One states that the impulsiveness and isolated nature of the psychopath as well as lack of empathy or emotion may be the result of a prolonged break in the relationship with the mother in the first year of life (Giora 139)

c. Another speculation is that psychopathy is characterized by a severely underdeveloped set of inhibitions, possibly having physiological basis.
d. That along with having an innate deficit in their ability to learn from mistakes makes punishment ineffective.e. It is suspected that brain damage to the hypothalamus and parental rejection may be responsible, meaning psychopaths need more stimulation to feel emotion. f. In “Gough’s Role Taking Theory”, (S.4 N.4) Gough drew on the interactionist perspective of sociology in which self contempt is the capacity to look on oneself as an object and emerge as the...

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Journal of Business Ethics (2011) 102:255–259
DOI 10.1007/s10551-011-0810-4
The Corporate Psychopaths Theory
of the Global Financial Crisis
ABSTRACT. This short theoretical paper elucidates a
plausible theory about the Global Financial Crisis and the
role of senior financial corporate directors in that crisis.
The paper presents a theory of the Global Financial Crisis
which argues that psychopaths working in corporations
and in financial corporations, in particular, have had a
major part in causing the crisis. This paper is thus a very
short theoretical paper but is one that may be very
important to the future of capitalism because it discusses
significant ways in which Corporate Psychopaths may
have acted recently, to the detriment of many. Further
research into this theory is called for.
KEY WORDS: Corporate Psychopaths, The Global Financial Crisis, leadership, corporate management
Introduction
The Global Financial Crisis has raised many ethical
issues concerning who pays for the damage inﬂicted
and who is responsible for causing the crisis. Commentators on business ethics have noted that corporate ﬁnancial scandals have assumed epidemic
proportions and that once great companies of
longstanding history and with previously unblemished and even digniﬁed reputations have been
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leaders. These commentators raise the fascinating
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